Magomed Suleymanov

Magomed Suleymanov (1976-), also known as Muhammad Uthman Abu al-Gimry or Abu Usman Gimry, was a commander of Vilayat Dagestan who was made the new Emir of the Caucasus Emirate on 19 April 2015, succeeding Aliaskhab Kebekov.

Biography
Magomed Suleymanov was born in 1976 to a family of Sunni Muslim Avars in the Soviet Union. Suleymanov became a sharia judge, and he became a commander and qadi (supreme religious authority) of the Vilayat Dagestan Islamist organization in Dagestan during the Second Chechen War. Suleymanov was one of the likely successors to Aliaskhab Kebekov after Dokka Umarov's death in 2014, and he became the new Emir of the Caucasus Emirate on 19 April 2015, succeeding Kebekov when he was killed by Russian forces.